OpenEuphoria

Re: fixed windows

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 06, 2003
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Lewis" <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: fixed windows


> 
> 
> kbochert at copper.net wrote:
> 
> > I have always felt that a big part of Eu's popularity was its
> > low-level ability -- run on dos, write console apps, poke memory, 
> > etc. Maybe not.
> 
> I like the feeling that I can usually focus on an algorithm without 
> having to fight the language (at least more so than with other languages 
> I have tried).  It largely has to do with the flexibility of the 
> datatypes, but also the clean, clear syntax.  

Wirth also developed Pascal because he felt that structured data was just as
important as structure programming. He'd hate Euphoria's dynamically typed data
structures. But I agree with you in that the fluid nature of Euphoria's datatypes
makes so many coding problems just disappear. It would be nice if we could have
both dynamically typed and statically typed data in the same language. There is a
place for both.
 
-- 
Derek